Sounds like it's time for a major browser to implement a default feature (so it becomes common as of the next update):

"Return opaque white canvas unless the user instructs otherwise."

Because I can't think of any good reason why the default should be "Return valid canvas" (tho "Ask" might also be a good setting).

I foresee the next step being websites that refuse to speak to you until they receive something they think is a valid canvas... at that point we'd want to add "Return random canvas" where "random" means "made up of common-as-dirt elements so it looks tolerably real".

One might drag forth the "buggy manufacturers' argument": if your product is no longer needed or wanted, you can't force people to buy it.

Of course that would depracticalize a good deal of the Web, but point being that it's not a *right*. They can try to sell it to us, of course, but how invasive should they be allowed to become? At what point does their "making a living" become "at our expense" ??

A small problem with Ghostery:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

It's idiot thinking. Why would you want to share space with the cars? Roads for pedestrians and bicyclists have much lesser requirements than those for cars, so they can be placed not only along much more direct routes, but also along far more pleasant ones because they can run through more environmentally sensitive areas without causing harm. Send the cars out of the way so that they don't bother the bicyclists and pedestrians, and let them have the most desirable and direct routes. The cars are much faster, so they can afford to go around.

A supercar needs to have top speed. It doesn't have to be over 200 mph, but it does need to be up there. Tesla makes zero cars with high top speed. For 5-10k you can buy a used Audi A8 (yes, just the A8 and defeat the limiter to get somewhere between 170 and 180 mph. (All cars not limited to 155 for euro-compliance are limited to 130 mph, for inadequate stock tires, depending on the model.) There are many wonderful things about the Teslas, and how fast do you need to go anyway? But they're not supercars. If I didn't live in the boonies, and range wasn't an issue, I'd like to own one, but they're still not supercars. There's a sports car and a sport tourer without enough range for touring but there's no supercar and no plans to produce one.

That's dumb. Pedestrians and bicyclists don't have the same requirements as automobiles, we should focus on keeping them separated. It's not as though they need to share the same space, except where no thought has been given to them.

There are no electric supercars. Audi is about to bring out an electric R8 with a top speed of 124. My 1989 240SX would get there, if you defeated the rev limiter.

To rinse your mouth after eating and neutralize the acids that harm teeth is FAR more effective at fighting decay than slowly poisoning yourself to meet government recommendations.Therefore water IS still the focus.Don't be a yuckmouth.

The future holds nothing different from the past, just rearranged and painted a different color.

Yeah, think so? This highlights the value of privacy and places an appropriate cost on it for me. If you want my details bad enough to meet the value of my privacy, you will give up some dignity, do a good job and swallow, once a week for as long as you sell MY details. No negotiation, this is final. Don't like it? Don't use my details.

Still, that doesn't speak to the individual AND as I noted elsewhere, when all have less, there is no scarcity. BUT, take away that and the desperation for survival kicks in along with the urgency of acquisition of necessity. So , NO, it is TRUE.

If you knew enough about Windows Mobile to know whether you had a valid point, you'd know that you don't. Explorer is still lurking in the OS, waiting to pop up and make you fuck around with a start menu when your replacement shell shits itself. This sort of thing used to happen in Android, too... way back in 1.6.

Bullshit. More than half the time they helped some asshole put it in the bin to begin with. When I show up with my normally-sized piece of carry-on luggage, they'd rather tell me to stow it under the seat in front of me (I'm 6'7" and wear size 16 shoes and that's not fucking happening, bitch) or take it somewhere far away that will make me have to wait much longer to get out of that tiny aluminum can.